"And when Frankenstein opened his Lab door, the monster looked at him and said (while smiling and waving) 'Hello!'"
I am tired. Extremely tired. School has seriously drained me, especially because I'm frantically trying to find time to read next week's reading material as well as study for 5 exams/major tests, and write one major essay.
On a related note, Last of the Mohicans is quite possibly the most boring book I have ever read. After every 10 pages, I would announce to anyone in close quarters "I have 410 pages left!...I have 200 pages left!" to the point where I was announcing every page that I finished. It was a struggle, but I feel slightly better now that my prof has apologized for having us read it...
I'm having a lot of difficulty keeping on track, even though I am trying to be as disciplined as possible. A friend of mine in my Early American Literature class (for which we have had to read two books so far - including Last of the Mohicans - as well as several very lengthy accounts of the destruction of several Native tribes) is even more swamped than I am. He is constantly amazed at the amount of work that we have to do for even that one class, and he has on many occasions threatened to write the prof a nasty email telling him that the English students in his class are taking OTHER courses as well, and that the 400+ novels we have had to read in a single weekend are far too advanced for an introductory English course. Although I do agree that it is a lot of work (and I must admit that I was the only person in my class to actually finish reading Last of the Mohicans over the weekend), I don't think that it's the prof's duty to ration the readings per week just in case we may be bogged down in other courses. It is the prof's primary duty to give us the readings and lectures that we need to pass the course. That's it. He doesn't care that most of us are English students, taking up to four other English courses at the same time. It's the student's responsibility to either keep up to date or catch up before the exams.
Now, on an unrelated note, two weekends ago was my family's annual car rally. Going into it, Chris and I were fairly confident that we would do well. And we did. We won by a whopping one point (thank goodness we went back about ten million times to check on that one clue...sigh). It was great fun, and we look forward to defending our title next year.
I am tired. Extremely tired. School has seriously drained me, especially because I'm frantically trying to find time to read next week's reading material as well as study for 5 exams/major tests, and write one major essay.
On a related note, Last of the Mohicans is quite possibly the most boring book I have ever read. After every 10 pages, I would announce to anyone in close quarters "I have 410 pages left!...I have 200 pages left!" to the point where I was announcing every page that I finished. It was a struggle, but I feel slightly better now that my prof has apologized for having us read it...
I'm having a lot of difficulty keeping on track, even though I am trying to be as disciplined as possible. A friend of mine in my Early American Literature class (for which we have had to read two books so far - including Last of the Mohicans - as well as several very lengthy accounts of the destruction of several Native tribes) is even more swamped than I am. He is constantly amazed at the amount of work that we have to do for even that one class, and he has on many occasions threatened to write the prof a nasty email telling him that the English students in his class are taking OTHER courses as well, and that the 400+ novels we have had to read in a single weekend are far too advanced for an introductory English course. Although I do agree that it is a lot of work (and I must admit that I was the only person in my class to actually finish reading Last of the Mohicans over the weekend), I don't think that it's the prof's duty to ration the readings per week just in case we may be bogged down in other courses. It is the prof's primary duty to give us the readings and lectures that we need to pass the course. That's it. He doesn't care that most of us are English students, taking up to four other English courses at the same time. It's the student's responsibility to either keep up to date or catch up before the exams.
Now, on an unrelated note, two weekends ago was my family's annual car rally. Going into it, Chris and I were fairly confident that we would do well. And we did. We won by a whopping one point (thank goodness we went back about ten million times to check on that one clue...sigh). It was great fun, and we look forward to defending our title next year.
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